These Wise Ways to Deal with Tough Times Can Help You Through Life’s Struggles

April 18, 2015 / Humble the Poet

Been through tough times? In spite of what you may have heard, you don’t need to “get over” it. Here’s how you can learn something valuable about your own strength instead.

We’re all in this together, trying to make oppression a thing of the past. In the meantime, while we’re still struggling, get some inspiration from the wisdom of author and rapper Humble the Poet.

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I got ten years to fill the stadium, but only two minutes to fill your cranium. Humble the Poet. Signin’ in.

We’ve all been through tough times, and if we haven’t been through tough times, I promise you, you will go through tough times. Even if you have gone through tough times, I promise you, you’ll probably go through a couple of more tough times. That’s what life is.

Life is a struggle. It’s a challenge. And as my friend reminded me yesterday, life doesn’t get easier, we just get stronger. When we want to deal with how do I get over or overcome these hard times, we don’t. We go through these tough times so we can strengthen ourselves. Every struggle is an opportunity for us to improve as an individual, learn new skill sets so we can have a brighter future.

Now if we tried our best to avoid every tough challenge that we have in life then we’re not going to develop as individuals to our potential. If anything, we’ll actually get weaker and we’ll become more and more accustomed to being in our comfort zone and we’ll get more and more afraid of any opportunity that we have to grow because it’s going to require us to be a little bit uncomfortable.

When we think about challenges in our lives, think about these as great opportunities for us to be better and not look at it as something that we need to avoid. We don’t need to get over tough times. We don’t need to get through tough times. These tough times are life. Life is never going to be smooth sailing. If it was smooth sailing, you’d get very bored. Trust your struggles and trust them enough that they will make you a better person. It’s up to you to find the lessons and the wisdom within them.

Thank you so much for watching. As always, please comment, rate, and subscribe. I try my best to reply to all your comments in the comments section below. This is all based on my book Unlearn. You can get yourself a copy at Unlearn101.com. It’s also available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and anywhere else they sell books. I also got it in eBook version, hardcover and audio book format.

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Speaker 2: One of the most important things I’ve learned in my life is the importance of loving yourself.

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Kanwer Singh aka Humble The Poet is an elementary school teacher & Toronto bred MC/Spoken Word Artist with an aura that embodies the diversity and resiliency of one of the World’s most unique cities. Humble is introducing a critical viewpoint to Hip Hop’s Landscape, and having a lot of fun in the process. Check out his YouTube channel and follow him on Twitter @humblethepoet.